Gov. Don Siegelman spent 57 days in ''The Hole''

[Ghost in the Machine]

116. "Can you believe it's 2016?" It's hard to imagine and I, as well as

a few others, am surprised that I am still here! I was lucky to make it through my 20's... literally! I was mixed up in some bad stuff back then, and can think of a few situations that, to this day, I still don't know how I made it.

My first memory of a changing decade was from 1969 to 1970... I was 6 years old, almost 7, and had just started back to school after the Christmas Break. I am pretty sure that it was 2nd grade, maybe still 1st grade. I, like my son, had to start school a year later than most of my friends, due to my birth date.

I can remember the RFK & MLK assassinations, and watching a few of the Apollo Missions either blast off or splash down. Watching one of the splash downs is also one of my first memories of wanting to be something when I grew up... I wanted to be a "frogman"!

I have seen a lot of things in my lifetime, a couple of them being things that NO HUMAN should ever see.... but the hardest thing to watch has been the erosion of our Rights, the erosion of our Democracy, and the backwards direction of our Country and civilization as the inmates have taken over control of the asylum. I hope that I live to see the day that we, as a society, get back in the right direction and can live peacefully as One. I am beginning to think that the dream of World Peace is just that... a pipe dream, but Hope keeps me going.

Peace to you and yours,

Ghost